A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Author | : Xiaolu Guo |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-03-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781407065588 |
ISBN-13 | : 1407065580 |
Rating | : 4/5 (580 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers written by Xiaolu Guo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists